Browser Update - 2/16/05 : More Bad News for Beleaguered Microsoft

Nearly another month later and the numbers are essentially the same but no surprises. Beleaguered Microsoft must be seeing similar numbers because now they're talking about an IE7 update ahead of the oft-delayed Longhorn. Here's how it's breaking down on my website:



Firefox and Mozilla now command 28% of the browsers used to visit my site. IE is down once again - summing up all the different versions gives them 61% and the significant lead is still intact... but getting smaller everyday? Safari is a surprise and has crawled up from 2% to 10% (usual caveat - I tend to talk about Apple & Macs and therefore, those numbers are a bit skewed). Nonetheless, These numbers mean that open-source based browsers are a significant presence on the web and developers should stop developing solely for Internet Explorer.



No real surprises here other than Linux does not seem to be gaining any traction on this site. Mac OS X is up at 10% and that correlates to the increased Safari traffic (refer to above caveat). The endless security and spyware threats are a real concern to users and that has resulted in a change of browser usage but still not enough to get people to change platforms.

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